And The Cat Turned To Smoke · Orchid

122 bars, 6:30, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

PunkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
6:30
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-76 and 118-121 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
AND THE CAT TURNED TO SMOKE · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 32, 34, 36, 39, 40 and 8 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time, 15 are fills, 14 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-99.

PART G
PART H
PART V
CHORUS
OUTRO
7 groovesXHACGV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is And The Cat Turned To Smoke?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is And The Cat Turned To Smoke hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 6:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in And The Cat Turned To Smoke?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 32, 34, 36, 39, 40 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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